Unix Timestamp Converter

What is a Unix timestamp?

A Unix timestamp (also called Unix time, POSIX time or epoch time) is the number of seconds that have passed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970. It is the same number everywhere in the world regardless of time zone, which is why servers, databases, logs and APIs use it to store points in time.

To show a timestamp as local time, add your time zone's offset from UTC. That offset can change during the year if your region observes daylight saving time; this converter uses your browser's time zone rules, so the result is always correct for the date in question.

Seconds or milliseconds?

• 10 digits (e.g. 1798000000) → seconds. Used by most servers and databases.
• 13 digits (e.g. 1798000000000) → milliseconds. JavaScript's Date.now() and Java's System.currentTimeMillis() return this.
• 16 digits are microseconds and 19 digits are nanoseconds. Leave the unit on “Auto” and it is detected from the number of digits.

Get the current timestamp in code

// JavaScript
Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)

# Python
import time; int(time.time())

// Java
System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000

// Go
time.Now().Unix()

-- MySQL
SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP();

-- PostgreSQL
SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM now())::bigint;

# Shell (macOS, Linux)
date +%s

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